1. AxsJax SS12: Code for a Cause Code-A-Thon Gurmeet Singh, Arvind Venkataraman, Kushal Bhatt Mentor: Prashanth Pandian (Orbital Sciences)

2. Motivation Accessibility is rarely a first consideration in design of many web sites Visually impaired persons Mobility impaired persons

3. Project AIM Making the wikipedia accessible to the visually challenged and mobility impaired Making the Sudoku game accessible.

4. Technologies involved JavaScript DOM AxsJax Tools used Firefox 2.x web browser Firevox screen reader GreaseMonkey

5. http://www.websudoku.com/ http://www.websudoku.com/ http://view.websudoku.com/ When the page loads up, the script reads out the contents of the cell 0, row 0 of the table. The following keys are available to the user for navigation Arrow keys for moving up, down, left, right ‘r’ to read the contents of current row ‘c’ to read the contents of current column 1-9 keys can be used to enter values in empty fields 0 can be used to clear the entry in a particular cell

6. http://www.websudoku.com/ http://www.websudoku.com/ http://view.websudoku.com/ The space key can be used to check the current solution It would say how many errors in total on the table, and which row and cell is in error If no errors, it would say how many more remaining cells to complete.

7. http://www.websudoku.com/ http://view.websudoku.com/ The user can also use the following keys to select new puzzles ‘e’ for selecting a new easy puzzle ‘m’ for selecting a new medium puzzle ‘h’ for selecting a new hard puzzle ‘v’ for selecting a new evil (very hard) puzzle

8. http://www.wikipedia.org When the page loads, the focus by default is on the search box The following keys are available for accessibility ‘?’ – to hear about the key shortcuts ‘Esc’ – to get into the language help ‘/’ – to get out of help and put focus back on the search box ‘n’ – to go to the next language ‘p’ – to go to the previous language ‘enter’ – to select the current language and go to the web page for that particular language

9. http://en.wikipedia.org When the page loads up the user can start using the ‘n’ and ‘p’ keys to read the paragraphs The following key characters are used ‘g’ – to go to the table of contents ‘n’ – to go to next section or paragraph ‘p’ – to go to previous section or paragraph ‘enter’ – to start reading the paragraphs in a particular section while reading the table of contents ‘/’ – to put focus on the search box

10. Functionality of our Software Making language selection accessible to the user Making the structure of the web site accessible to the user Make the navigation accessible

11. Conclusion Many thanks to Prashanth for excellent support and mentoring Many thanks to SS12 group for an excellently organized program User guides at http://ss12.info/svn/axsjax/docs